Question for other legal MS beta testers

[SoulAssassin]

I'm an official tester for MS and was promised, like everyone else, a copy of XP after it was released. Got my 120 eval in mid/early October but never got the full version. Saw something on betanews.com near the beginning of the year that they were holding off on the shipments to keep up w the demand in stores (we'll ignore the fact that it sounds like pure marketing and move on). Haven't heard anything since then. I know there's the s___c__@microsoft.com email address (blanks left there intentionally as I believe it's supposed to be private) but what other contacts do I have to bring this to Microsoft's attention and try to get my legal copy?

Also, if you are a valid tester, could you please let me know approximately when you received your copy? Thanks.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
I'm an official tester for MS and was promised, like everyone else, a copy of XP after it was released. Got my 120 eval in mid/early October but never got the full version. Saw something on betanews.com near the beginning of the year that they were holding off on the shipments to keep up w the demand in stores (we'll ignore the fact that it sounds like pure marketing and move on). Haven't heard anything since then. I know there's the s___c__@microsoft.com email address (blanks left there intentionally as I believe it's supposed to be private) but what other contacts do I have to bring this to Microsoft's attention and try to get my legal copy?
Also, if you are a valid tester, could you please let me know approximately when you received your copy? Thanks.

All of the copies went out by mid January. I contacted them (didn't receive mine either) and they claimed I missed one of the final beta surveys, I'm pretty sure I did it and told them that, but they blew me off (this after our company got all of our products ready for day 0). Oh well, have it from MSDN anyway, the box copy would have just been 'nice' (I filed a zillion bugs during the beta...)

Bill

 

[SoulAssassin]

I only filled out 2-3 bugs but submitted every survey and definitely received the confirmation at the end that I would be receiving it, see you in the next program, etc. Dasm.